Corto Maltese

Head over to RCRD LBL to download the new single, “Heat Death” b/w “Fear” – our cover of the John Cale classic.

“Corto Maltese gets compared to Arcade Fire a lot. But we hear more humility in this Austin quintet. A little more tremble in the falsetto, a little more sunshine in the riffs. On their cover of “Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend,” we can imagine the wood-paneled studio littered with cereal boxes in which the song must have been recorded. How else could they have captured so much Friday afternoon glee? It gets harmonizing and bang-bang drummy on “The Heat Death of The Universe” and it’s the epitome of charming.”

There is so much to love about the young Austin band Corto Maltese. It just begs you to do one of those “let me count the ways,” blabberings, where thoughts topple, clamber and spill onto each other, making a slobbery, sticky mess of amore. If you’re into the kind of rock and roll that feels big without even trying, that sounds as if it should be stuffed into a rocket casing and shot into the sky as part of a colorful fireworks display on a Fourth of July evening, for all to oooo and awwww for, this is a legitimate place to start.”

Thanks to Sean and everyone at Daytrotter.